JetBrains supports .NET development with Rider, a .NET IDE based on the IntelliJ platform and ReSharper.
$149
per year per user
Visual Studio
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Visual Studio (now in the 2022 edition) is a 64-bit IDE that makes it easier to work with bigger projects and complex workloads, boasting a fluid and responsive experience for users. The IDE features IntelliCode, its automatic code completion tools that understand code context and that can complete up to a whole line at once to drive accurate and confident coding.
$45
per month
Pricing
JetBrains Rider
Microsoft Visual Studio
Editions & Modules
For Individuals
$149
per year per user
dotUltimate for Individual
$169
per year per user
All Products Pack for Individuals
$289
per year per user
For Organizations
$419
per year per user
dotUltimate for Organizations
$469
per year per user
All Products Pack for Organizations
$779
per year per user
Professional
$45.00
per month
Enterprise
$250.00
per month
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Rider
Visual Studio
Free Trial
Yes
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
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dotUltimate: All .NET tools, ReSharper C++ and JetBrains Rider, together in one pack
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Rider and Visual Studio IDE are both tools used for .Net development. Rider is a .Net Development service built specifically to enable developers to write programs on the .Net platform. Visual Studio IDE is an integrated development environment originally built for development on Microsoft platforms, but now supports development for most popular languages. Both development tools are popular with businesses of all sizes that work on the .Net platform.
Features
Rider and Visual Studio IDE both aid developers in creating .Net applications, but they also have some standout features that set them apart from each other.
Rider provides a highly customizable user interface, including custom keybindings, collapsable windows, and color schemes. In addition to essential version control features included in most IDE’s, Rider also includes stashing and patching features, making it easy to track multiple pending changes. For code refactoring, Rider also includes advanced features such as condition inversion and method extraction. Rider is an ideal tool for businesses looking for a feature rich .Net development tool.
Visual Studio IDE was one of the first tools built for .net development, so it supports legacy .Net code and extensions. Additionally, Visual Studio IDE has developed support for other coding languages such as Python. Visual Studio IDE also offers a free to use option. All in all, Visual Studio IDE is ideal for businesses working with legacy .Net code or who want an IDE that can work for several popular coding languages.
Limitations
Rider and Visual Studio IDE both provide support for developers, but they also have some limitations that are important to consider.
Rider provides many advanced tools to aid in development, but it lacks support for some legacy modules. Businesses working with a lot of legacy code may consider a different development tool. Additionally, Rider is built primarily with .Net in mind, so id isn’t ideal for businesses that want to use it to develop in other languages. For individual users, there is also no free version of Rider.
Visual Studio provides support for legacy code, but it only provides basic versioning features. Businesses that want to take advantage of features such as stashing should consider a different tool. Similarly, Visual Studio IDE only provides basic tools for refactoring. Visual Studio IDE is a poor choice for businesses that want to provide their developers with the most advanced .Net features available.
Pricing
Visual Studio’s basic subscription starts at $45.00 per month and includes essential development features. Businesses looking for priority support or professional training can purchase the Professional subscription for $1,199.00 per year, with discounts for renewal. A community version is available for individual users.
Rider is available as an annual or monthly subscription, starting as low as $139.00 per year. Rider is also included in larger Jetbrains packages that include other development tools.
I think it's the best IDE nowadays for game development, mainly in Unreal, but it's also the best one in cost/benefit for Unity. It might not work for people who prefer a more lightweight IDE, it's still pretty heavy and its indexing takes around 2~3GB of ram, but it's worth the quick indexing and IntelliSense.
It's useful for app development, debugging, and testing. I've been using it for two years and have seen it grow into a fantastic tool. All of the features, NuGet packages, and settings that enable different types of projects are fantastic. It also has a connection to Azure DevOps and Git. It's a fantastic product that's simple to use.
Helps you refactor your code into more readable and more efficient code.
Highly customizable UI, including color themes, shortcut key remappings, and the ability to put any Window, Toolbar, or Docked tab anywhere you want, even on second screens. Additionally, this functionality can be customized per project, not just globally for the whole machine.
More control over Git. Visual Studio just has the basics, but mostly all that is needed is for git repositories. It gets the job done., but Rider takes it one step further and gives you most of what you can do on the command line's simple, easy to access menu options.
If you use TeamCity, then you have complete and full integration into your TeamCity build server!
You can double tap your control key and get a quick pop up to instantly run any command. Double tap shift and you can search your entire project, filenames, AND text and filter that search!
Rock solid intellisense. For C# and VB.Net code, the intellisense provided by Visual Studio is hands down the best. If you find that you have a hard time remembering parameters of functions, or what object names were, the intellisense will rescue you and help me be an efficient developer.
Super fast and simple to use debugger for C# and VB. Everything in the debugger is handed to you on a silver platter. When you stop on a break point, it immediately shows you the local variables, the call stack, and even your current memory usage. Setting up watch variables is super simple and you can even make breakpoints conditional so it will only stop on certain conditions.
Hides the tedious tasks. There are quite a few things like publishing, creating click once deployments, and adding/removing settings in the project files that can be really time consuming when trying to do it by hand (such as if you don't have access to Visual Studio and you need to make changes). Visual Studio hides all the tedium from you by making nice point and click interfaces to get things done quickly.
Certain settings and features can sometimes be challenging to locate. The interface isn't always intuitive.
Sometimes there are too many ways to do the same thing. For example, users can quickly add a new workspace in Source Control Explorer when a local path shows as "Not Mapped," but it doesn't indicate that the user might want to check the dropdown list of workspaces. The shortcut of creating a new workspace by clicking on the "Not Mapped" link can lead to developers creating too many workspaces and causing workspace management to become unwieldy. If the shortcut link were removed, the user would be forced to use the Workspace dropdown. While it can add an extra step to the process, workspaces would be managed more easily, and this would enforce consistency. At the very least, there should be a high-level administrative setting to hide the shortcut link.
VS is the best and is required for building Microsoft applications. The quality and usefulness of the product far out-weight the licensing costs associated with it.
It's easy to learn while still advanced. It has smart tricks up it's sleeve that you have to find out but that is to be expected. It has a modern new UI that some will find too compact, but it took me just a day to like it more than to switch back.
The thing I like the most is Visual Studio doesn't suffer from Microsoft's over eager marketing department who feel they need to redesign the UI (think Office and windows) which forces users to loose large amounts of productivity having to learn software that they had previously known.
The support forums and knowledge base are extensive and the JetBrains support staff respond quickly to new posts and help resolve issues. There is also a publicly accessible issue tracking system, which allows you to stay on top of any bug fixes or enhancement requests.
Between online forums like StackOverflow, online documentation, MSDN forums, and the customer support options, I find it very easy to get support for Visual Studio IDE when I need it. If desired, one can also download the MSDN documentation about the IDE and have it readily available for any support needs.
It’s a great free tool but not as enhanced as IntelliJ platform that JetBrains Rider has. Debugging and access to database is not as comfortable to use. Sure, you can save money on IDE, but may need to spend it on sleeping and stress relief pills.
I personally feel Visual Studio IDE has [a] better interface and [is more] user friendly than other IDEs. It has better code maintainability and intellisense. Its inbuilt team foundation server help coders to check on their code then and go. Better nugget package management, quality testing and gives features to extract TRX file as result of testing which includes all the summary of each test case.
Using the integration between Visual Studio and our source control service, the cost of re-work and losing code is drastically reduced.
Paid versions of Visual Studio enable developers to be so much more productive than hacked-together open source solutions that it's hard to imagine developing in Windows without it.
When combined with support subscriptions and the vast array of free online help options available, Visual Studio saves our developers time by keeping them coding and testing, not wasting their time trying to guess their way out of problems or spend endless hours online hoping to find answers.
